Method, apparatus and business system for online communication with online and offline recipients
First Claim
1. A method for providing e-mail communications between a sender and a recipient comprising the steps of:
- creating a first created e-mail address for a recipient;
receiving a first e-mail message from a sender comprising a first existing e-mail address of said sender addressed to said first created e-mail address;
creating a second created e-mail address for said sender;
creating a first modified e-mail message by replacing said first existing e-mail address in said first e-mail message with said second created e-mail address;
delivering said first modified e-mail message to said recipient.
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Abstract
The present invention comprises a method, apparatus and business system for allowing on-line communications with members of a group of recipients for whom the invention has been implemented. A group may, for example, comprise members of a particular business or profession. For example, a group may consist of doctors admitted to practice medicine in the United States. Individual members of the group may or may not have existing internet presences. The invention allows online users to communicate with each member of a given group regardless of whether or not the member has an existing internet presence. In one or more embodiments, the invention does so by setting up a database of contact information for members of the group, creating an internet presence for each member of such group, creating an on-line user interface allowing a user to access the member'"'"'s created internet presence, and providing means of communications between the created internet presence and the member recipient.
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7 Claims
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1. A method for providing e-mail communications between a sender and a recipient comprising the steps of:
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creating a first created e-mail address for a recipient; receiving a first e-mail message from a sender comprising a first existing e-mail address of said sender addressed to said first created e-mail address; creating a second created e-mail address for said sender; creating a first modified e-mail message by replacing said first existing e-mail address in said first e-mail message with said second created e-mail address; delivering said first modified e-mail message to said recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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